Jeff Jarrett’s AEW retirement tour disappeared almost as quickly as it started, and now Double J is finally saying something about it.
During a Reddit AMA, Jarrett was asked straight-up what happened to his retirement run in AEW, and his answer was about as old-school wrestling as it gets. No big rant, no buried drama, just the one line every fan has seen on a ticket at some point.
“There’s one thing in the wrestling business that’s always consistent: “CARD SUBJECT TO CHANGE…Creative plans will always change in this industry. –JJ”
The retirement angle had originally looked like it was heading somewhere much bigger. Jarrett was tied up with MJF, the two were trading insults, and fans were being led to believe that AEW had a longer story in mind for the Last Outlaw. Then AEW pulled away from it.
We had previously explained that the Jarrett retirement tour ended because AEW simply decided it was not working. The MJF feud was apparently supposed to last longer, too, but Tony Khan had other plans. Instead of dragging out Jarrett vs. MJF, AEW shifted MJF toward Hangman Page.
Fans saw the change play out after Jarrett failed to earn a shot at the AEW World Title on the February 5 episode of Dynamite. MJF insulted him afterwards, but instead of that feud continuing in a major way, MJF quickly moved into a heated segment with Dustin Rhodes, making it pretty obvious AEW had already turned the page.
Jarrett’s response now makes the whole thing feel less like a mystery and more like another case of wrestling plans changing on the fly. His retirement tour may have been dropped, but Jarrett clearly isn’t pretending this is the first time a creative direction got rewritten before fans saw the full version.
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